State Aid Publications

The spring report shows the unit prices for items in the needs calculation for the next calendar year. These include the cost of signs, the costs of various types of pavements, and the cost of maintenance of culverts and bridges.

The spring report shows the unit prices for items in the needs calculation for the next calendar year. These include the cost of signs, the costs of various types of pavements, and the cost of maintenance of culverts and bridges.

The section of the 1957 Minnesota Laws regarding State Aid operations.

The section of the 1959 Minnesota Laws regarding State Aid operation.

After the passage of Minnesota Amendment II, which established the State Aid for Local Transportation system, the Minnesota Highway Department and the Joint Committee of County Commissioners and County Highway Engineers created this proposal for the distribution of the new funds.

Selected Sections of the Law relating to the establishment, location, construction, reconstruction, improvement, and maintenance of the County-State Aid Highways and the Municipal-State Aid Streets.

In accordance with Chapter 692, Session Laws of 1953, a 28-member highway study commission was appointed by the Legislature. Seven Senators and seven other citizens were appointed by the Committee on Committees of the Senate, and seven Representatives and seven other citizens were appointed by the Speaker of the House. The resulting report recommended establishing a State Aid for Local Transportation program.

The Minnesota Legislature Interim Commission on Highway Taxes Distribution was created to study equitable distribution of highway user taxes in 1955. The recommendations in this report were used to determine the allocations at the beginning of the State Aid for Local Transportation.

The objectives of this study were to assure that through critical reassessment of elements affecting width standards that the standards are indeed an up-to-date reflection of the best of available technical knowledge past and present; and to furnish the engineer facing the public a documentation of sound reasons for the standards he is called upon to observe and defend. The study involved a multi-dimensional approach including a study of present professional practice, a historical review, and an evaluation of the safety, operational environmental and cost aspects of width elements. Variables considered include human factors responses, basic driver-vehicle-road relationships, system or network considerations, costs of construction and maintenance, and environmental impacts. The project included the collection and synthesis of data, studies, information, unit values, etc. which describe each of the important variables and where necessary reflect the sensitivities of Minnesota conditions. This synthesis process enabled formal evaluation of all pertinent width elements resulting in a series of statements and recommendations concerning optimal values for input to Minnesota state aid design standards. A rational process for considering exceptional cases is suggested.

This is a summary of the engineering report, "Highway Transportation in Minnesota", which was prepared for the Minnesota Highway Study Commission by the Automotive Safety Foundation.